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Wake Us Up When It's Awesome

By Brian Carr

Rip Van Winkle in Dark Sky Magazine

We Need Sleep

We’re in the middle of spring semester, and our procrastination is killing us. We’ve got piles of papers to grade, submissions to sort through, and some stories to edit and send away.

Our lives are the equivalent of Rip Van Winkle’s farm: weedy and barren. We want to carry our guns out into the Catskills. We want to sip gin from the Dutchman’s flagon and toss nine pens with the personages.

But, alas, there are things to do. 

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